Before the pandemic, many London-area commuters were obliged to take crammed Tube carriages for parts of their journey. Riders from eastern Essex or western Berkshire, for example, had to get a ...

At the height of the MPs expenses' scandal in May 2009, prime minister Gordon Brown took time from leading the country to join London mayor Boris Johnson and junior transport minister Lord Adonis at ...

Network Rail has awarded a major contract, with a value of approximately £130m, to Balfour Beatty Rail for the construction of a two-mile section of the Crossrail route from Plumstead to Abbey Wood in ...

Crossrail has opened, shrinking journey times for many on London’s east-west corridor and providing much-needed capacity to the capital’s transport network. Hordes of Londoners showed up to ...

The Earl of Wessex will mark the completion of London’s Crossrail project by travelling on the Elizabeth line. He will meet staff who have been key to the project and who will run the railway, ...

Crossrail’s first visitor centre near Tottenham Court Road opens today. The centre at 16-18 St Giles High Street, WC2H 8LN (opposite the junction with Denmark Street) will be a one-stop shop for ...

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A new underground suburban railway line will accompany London's already extensive Tube system. Prime Minister Gordon Brown approved funding for the £16 billion ($32 billion US) Crossrail tunnel ...

Europe’s biggest infrastructure project has been delayed — again. Crossrail, the British company building a 60-mile rail line from east to west across London, says that the line won’t be finished ...

London's Crossrail project will probably go even further over budget, according to a report by MPs. Commuters have been "let down" by a programme that is well behind schedule, the Public Accounts ...

Canary Wharf to Oxford Circus in 26 minutes? Doesn't sound too bad. According to Citymapper, that's how long it will take you to zip from the financial hub in east London to the city center on a new ...